Attack Of The Giant Leeches - AI COLORIZED - Cult Science Fiction Horror Film

If you enjoyed the movie, please Click the LIKE button and FOLLOW buttons - New High Quality movies uploaded every week.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a creatively edited remaster of the original film, it has been colorized, upscaled, tone and color graded, denoised and image sharpened by AFLIX using proprietary technologies and software systems, therefore AFLIX holds all intellectual property over this version. Consequently, it cannot be shared, copied or distributed without ALFIX agreement and permission.

Attack of the Giant Leeches (originally to be called The Giant Leeches) is an independently made, 1959 black-and-white science fiction-horror film, produced by Gene Corman and directed by Bernard L. Kowalski. It stars Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Bruno VeSota and Jan Shepard. The screenplay was written by Leo Gordon. It was retitled Demons of the Swamp for its UK release.

Attack of the Giant Leeches was one of a spate of "creature features" produced during the 1950s in response to Cold War fears; a character in the film speculates that the leeches have been mutated to giant size by atomic radiation from nearby Cape Canaveral.

Plot
In the Florida Everglades, a group of gigantic, intelligent leeches live secretly beneath the depths of a deep swamp. Following the violent death of a local fisherman near the swamp, game warden Steve Benton (Clark) sets out to investigate the cause, despite local authorities blaming the incident on an alligator.

Only a few days after, two more locals, Liz Walker (Vickers) and Cal Moulton (Emmet) go missing near the swamp, while having an affair behind the back of her husband (VaSota), who is wrongly blamed for their deaths (eventually committing suicide while in jail). Search parties are formed throughout the surrounding area looking for the bodies but none are found, and two more men go missing.

Steve, with the aid of his girlfriend, Nan Grayson (Sheppard), and her father, Doc Grayson, discover the gruesome truth, the giant leeches are not only the cause of the disappearances, but are also feeding on their victims (who are imprisoned in an underground cave), slowly draining them of blood. Steve and his friend Mike (Kelley), both divers from the war, dive to the bottom of the swamp. They find the cave’s underwater entrance, but are attacked by the leeches. With the use of spearguns and knives, they manage to kill one, but are forced to retreat before they can save a single victim, all of which are found dead.

The creatures are finally destroyed when Steve, Mike and several state troopers blow up the underwater cavern using dynamite. The bodies of the killed leeches rise lifeless to the surface of the water, but in the films closing moments, one of the leeches can be seen, still alive and swimming away.

Cast
Ken Clark as Steve Benton
Yvette Vickers as Liz Walker
Jan Shepard as Nan Greyson
Michael Emmet as Cal Moulton
Tyler McVey as Doc Greyson
Bruno VeSota as Dave Walker
Gene Roth as Sheriff Kovis
Dan White as Porky Reed
George Cisar as Lem Sawyer
Joseph Hamilton as Old Sam Peters
Walter Kelley as Mike
Guy Buccola as Giant Leech
Ross Sturlin as Giant Leech